Archive for March 2nd, 2011

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

A UN report has noted that the plans to combat the cartels must be modified. Ocejo Jorge Moreno, Vice President for Mexico at the UN Latin American Parliament, presented the report to the Senate of Mexico, with resolutions of the last meeting of that organization of legislators from over 20 countries, like Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Venezuela, among others.

In the document, lawmakers in Mexico and Latin America recognize: “Today’s drug cartels articulate and exert control over the criminal gangs who run the smuggling, and arms trafficking, prostitution, youth gangs, car theft, counterfeit banknotes, thus blurring the boundaries between common and organized crime. “

“The traditional approach to prosecution of drug trafficking that favors local strategies should be changed to one that allows further investigation of transnational crime and the diversity of forms it takes to mingle with other international criminal phenomena such as trafficking in weapons and people , money and contraband. “

It warned that according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Mexican and Colombian cartels have become transnational, even with operations in Africa for over two years.

In their report, the legislators agree that the strategy based solely on criminal prosecution, rather than reduce drug trafficking activities tends to increase and diversify it, and involve an increasing number of people from different sectors. It also mentioned that the cartels have set up specific structures to recruit people, especially in regions where “the social fabric is broken and there’s a weakening of the presence of state institutions.”http://eleconomista.com.mx/seguridad-publica/2011/02/27/carteles-rompen-fronteras______________________

Mexican situation, unlike Colombia

The drug cartels in Mexico are seeking to operate freely and represent a huge challenge for the government of the country, but it is a situation that can not be equated with that which existed in Colombia years ago, said a senior American official on Tuesday.

“We do not believe that the situation in Mexico may be equated with that which existed in Colombia years ago. Mexican cartels have no desire to rule, to replace the government, but to operate freely”, said Matthew Rooney, State Department official in charge of relations with Mexico, in a dialogue with media in Miami.

–Ciudad Juárez: Three funeral homes attacked; 2 men killed
near one.
–Guadalupe, Nuevo León: Men executed and body taken; truck found on fire when police arrive; gunmen show up and take body from cops.

–Ciudad Juárez: Yesterday, we reported on 4 killed, including a 10 yr. old; 14 yr. old survivor in hospital; gunmen went to hospital, shooting and unsuccessfully searching for him; unknown if he survived.

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